Live according to Nature - Marcus Aurelius

Image result for marcus aureliusThe scholar Pierre Hadot answered that living according to nature in the Stoics, meant living according to 3 disciplines:

  1. Discipline of action: living benevolently, so that all of mankind flourishes and achieves “happiness”.
  2. Discipline of Assent
  3. Discipline of Desire: self-control over irrational passions, “courage” and endurance in fear and suffering, and “self-discipline” (temperance).
References:
http://donaldrobertson.name/2013/02/20/introduction-to-stoicism-the-three-disciplines/

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